Varieties of Partitions
You'll need to be familiar with a few varieties of partitions when you manually partition your disk. I've summarized these in the following sections and provided some tips on choosing their size, mount points, and filesystems.
Root Partition
You must have a root partition; it's where important system files are stored and software is installed. I recommend making it at least 8GB in size, but aim for 10GB to 15GB if you can to leave room for installing new programs. If you're not going to have a separate home partition (described in a moment), all of your files will be stored in the root partition too, so you should make it as big as possible to accommodate all your stuff in that case. The mount point should be set to / and ...
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